http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6764
------- Additional Comments From winebugger@piments.com 2006-25-11 04:53 ------- suggest refering to install notes for version 7 for earlier wine releases that did work with the installer.
regression happened around 0.9.20, this could presumably traced back to where the breakage came in.
v7 uses a known buggy installshield/MSI installer that is known to show exactly the same errors on some HP windows machines.
It appears that wine is correctly emulating some set of conditions that triggers this MSI bug. It would be nice if it could emulate a windows env. that does not trigger the bug.